susan smith
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Freddie Krueger Who? Karen is the Real Face of Terror For Black America
During this spooky season, the Root continues to reveal the real monsters who have terrified Black people.
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Sherry Hall (AKA "Officer Becky") And How The "Big, Bad, (Black) Dude" Is America's Boogeyman
We keep cycling through the same macabre Groundhog’s Day events of learning of an egregious police shooting. Then protesting. Then simmering down. Then learning of yet another death. But perhaps the most ridiculous police-involved shooting in September shed no actual blood. Sherry Hall, a White female police officer from Jackson, GA, claimed a Black man…
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White Lies: A Brief History of White People Lying About Crimes
Before there was Olympic thug Ryan Lochte, who lied about being robbed in Rio de Janeiro, white people were notoriously known for either committing crimes and pinning them on fictitious black folks or just blaming them for made-up or heinous crimes committed by someone else, because racism. Here’s a brief history of black people being…